Huge numbers of people have been detained for breaching restrictions in the past 12 months. My orders are to the police, the military and the barangays: If they become unruly and they fight you and your lives are endangered, shoot them dead,” Duterte said during a speech. President Rodrigo Duterte has applied his traditional strongman tactics, saying in April last year that police would shoot dead anyone who violated virus restrictions. The Philippines has taken a tough approach to containing coronavirus. “The only penalties that can be imposed by law enforcers for any kind of violations are those found in local law and national law, and we don’t have any laws that allow people to be put in dog cages or be made to exercise for long periods of time,” he said.
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Jose Manuel Diokno, a lawyer and founder of Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), said it was not legal to lock people up in cages or make people squat 300 times. They also reportedly forced people to sit in the midday sun as punishment for breaching a curfew. In a statement last month, non-profit organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) pointed to reports that officials had locked five youths inside a dog cage for violating quarantine. Peñaredondo’s death follows a string of incidents involving brutal policing techniques. “All police officers who will be proven to have violated the law will be prosecuted and meted with appropriate (administrative) and criminal penalties,” the department’s undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said in a text message to CNN Philippines. Philippines orders more than 25 million people into lockdown over Easter as Covid-19 cases soar Police officers inspect motorists on Maat a quarantine checkpoint in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines, as a strict quarantine is reimposed in Manila and surrounding provinces to curb the spread of Covid-19.
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